The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-07-23
SUBURBAN NEWS.
sAccARAPPA.

oASSAhAIEA.
Station Agent HELEN sold 207 circus ex-
cursion tickets over the Portland & Roches-
ter road Thursday.
Mr. Edmund B. Phinney represented the
Fifth Maine Regiment Association in this
village, at the reunion held at Peaks Island
Thursday.
Presiding Elder Jones presided at the
meeting of the Quarterly Conference held in
this village Thursday afternoon and evening.
Mr. George w. Norton has retired from the
local department of the Westbrook Chroni-
Gle.
AS Mr.. P. O'Brine was driving out Thurs
day evening the forward wheel of his car
riage struck against the curbing on the street
corner. The carriage was overturned and
badly smashed. The occupants escaped with
out serious injury.
The ten-hour system is working well in
the manufacturing establishments Opera
tives are obliged to make every minute
count In order to get the half day OFF, Sat-
urday.
The weekly payment system. adopted by
many OF the large corporations, has increased
the business and responsibility of the Amer
lean Express Company and its agent at this
place.
Messrs. Knowton Brothers are filling or
ders for heavy machinery at the Sanford
mills. They have orders for twelve months
work ahead.
The Westbrook Merchants Association is
making arrangements for grand excursion
and gala day at Long Island on Wednesday
Of next week. The executive committee
have prepared good programme that takes
| frst-classdiuner at Cushing & NItchells.
| A special train will leave this village at s
o'clock in the morning, and the steamer
Forest City has been chartered to convey the
| party to and from the island. All the stores
in both villages will be closed for the day
and business generally suspended. If the
| the weather favOrs them upwards of
three hundred persons will join in the ex-
| cursion
A number of ladies and gentlemen from
and spent an enjoyable day at the Garden
and Opera House. K.
CAPE ELIZABETH
The petition that has been in circulation
asking for change in the name of the Ferry
| Village post office to South Portland, was
| sent to the Postmaster General Wednesday
of this week. 1t had nearly two hundred
| signatures.
The contract for building the new side
walk at Willard, two thousand feet or more,
has been awarded to Mr. A. }. Robinson, at
| 81 cents per foot.
Mr.. Clarence Armstrong and Mr. Otis
Stephenson, of Deep Brook, while coming
ashore from fishing trip day or two ago,
in punt, came very near getting drowned
The punt filled and let them into the water
Stephenson managed to cling on to the punt,
but Armstrong was not as fortunate. He
could not reach the punt, and as he could
not swim, he came very near being drowned.
| He was going down for the third time, as
help came from the cottage and rescued him.
Mr.. Charles Hamilton, engineer on the
Boston & Maine railroad, is LAYING the foun.
dation for a large new house near the Chap
| ell at Turner's Island.
Arthur w. Pierce, of Portland, has recent.
| ly purchased ten acres of land near Cape
| Elizabeth Depot, five of which will be de-
voted to gardening and five to hens and
chickens In his hen department he has now
| 300 hens and $50 chickens and will winter
1900 hens. He is now building
houses and yards on his hen lot and will re.
duce his business to perfect system.